Dangerous

 About a month ago I caught Simon standing on the bar stool. I said, "Simon sit down or you are going to fall and get hurt." His reply, "It's ok Mom, I'm Dangerous." Where did this come from? I'm not sure but it has become a theme with him. Anytime, now, that we ask him to stop doing something or to do something he replies that he is 'Dangerous!' It is incredibly cute especially when you see his face when he says it!

PS- Please ignore all of Dirk's tools in the background!

I swear his face is saying, "Quit treating me like a baby, I know what I am doing!" How can you not love him to death?

3 R’s

I have the best husband in the world! It is Dirk's slow season at work. He still works from 8am-6pm during the day, comes home to eat, play with the kids, and help put them to bed; then he goes back to work from 9pm-12am. He does this 3 days a week and then works 8am-6pm the other two days. Even with this crazy schedule he found time to make this for his boys:

One of Dirk's many jobs at work is to make all of the displays that we send out to customers. A couple of displays came out of our outlet store that were old and falling apart and Dirk was told to just throw them away. Instead he reused them and some other odds and end pieces to make the bed. He made it over a weekend and his boys absolutely LOVE it. Since we put it up in their room Simon has gone to bed sooooo much easier. He calls his bed his house. The railing is his window.Rayden feels so big being on the top bunk! Sometimes he is in a good mood and allows Simon to climb up and play for awhile.
Dirk is also working on another project for their room. We took apart the two sides to our entertainment system and moved them to the boys' room. They fit perfectly on either side of their window and they are already black so I don't have to paint them. Dirk is going to build a desk to connect the two shelves and also a shelf on the top to give it a more built-in look. When it is done I will post more pics.
So when that project is done I am going to create a sign in vinyl that I think fits the room perfectly.

I know the saying is 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle', but I think I am going to change it to say, 'Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle.' I'm going to cut the words out and place them in each arrow. I think it works. I am so excited to see the finished room.While Dirk has been busy with wood projects I have been working a few of my own. I pulled Simon's old car seat out of storage and decided that it just wasn't girly enough for Kynlee, so I made a new cover. It is far from perfect and I still have to make the canopy but I was pretty impressed with myself.

I've never done a sewing project without a pattern and I was scared to death the whole time I was working on this one. I'm going to keep the old car seat cover on underneath to make sure there is enough padding but now it is perfectly girly!

Cleaning the Kitchen Sink

Here in good ol' Cache Valley we have a little diner. If you have never been there you can't say you live here.

Angie's has been around for forever. Like all good diners they have a challenge item on the menu. They call it the Kitchen Sink.

(I'm not sure who the girl is in the photo but it was the only pic I could find of the Sink before it was eaten!)

Obviously you can see where it gets it's name from. It's a huge ice cream sundae in, well, a kitchen sink! I have never experienced the pleasure of all that ice cream myself but Alexia got a chance to this last month with their oh so wonderful babysitter, Sam.

We love Sam! She is so much fun!!!! She took the kids to Angie's just for this special treat and look how well they did.

Sidnee, Connor, Alexia, Clay, Navy, Megan
 Lexi informed me that they kept eating after this picture and only a teeny little bit was left in the bottom when they were done. I am surprised none of them had belly aches when they came home. Lexi wants me to put the bumper sticker on our car but I convinced her it would be more fun to hang up in her room.